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In July, the Box Office Bears team visited Wildwood Trust in Kent. Wildwood has three rescued captive bears, who are living new lives in a large, wooded enclosure at the Trust.
On Monday, the Box Office Bears team visited Wildwood Trust in Kent. Wildwood has three rescued captive bears, who are living new lives in a large, wooded enclosure at the Trust.
On Valentine’s Day in 2023, the Box Office Bears project took over the impressive Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, not with roses and romantic dining, but with music, drama… and bears!
A bearward of questionable repute assembles her band of battling bears of varying sizes in the playfight wrestling school, London…
In this blog post, Harvey Shepherd attempts to think through some of the problems of studying visual culture as a means of reconstructing baiting practices in Europe, using examples from his research on France in the eighteenth century.
We can glean information about bear baiting from different medieval sources such as manuscript marginalia or sketches. But there is a lot more to bears in visual culture than first meets the eye.